My image of the retina
- 1 May 1969
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics
- Vol. 2 (1) , 25-64
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033583500000780
Abstract
The initial act for visual perception is the absorption of light in the photo-pigment of the receptor end-organs. Since both light and the nervous message have a quantal structure, any theory of visual information processing should in principle be a digital processing theory. And not only in principle, since we know for certain that in many situations the number of quanta is rather restricted, so that an over-all thermodynamic theory cannot but fail to adequately describe visual facts.Keywords
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